Next success of Kurti Government: Champions in inflation, last in perspective

This inflation cannot be justified by “external factors” because the Eurozone had around 2.4% in 2017 and 2.1% in 2025, while Kosovo was almost triple higher. Even Albania, which has for years been criticised internationally for corruption, clientelelysmism and serious economic structural problems, results in markedly lower inflation than Kosovo. This makes it even harder to justify that the problem comes only from global crises or external factors, because countries in the region are facing the same challenges, but not the same level of economic failure.

High inflation is obviously related to internal structural problems, so it's the local production of the Kurti government. It is caused by extreme dependence on imports; weakened local production; high-cost energy industry and sanitation, or Gallopant immigration, which has increased costs and labour power shortages. At the same time, the government increasingly collects taxes and has a larger budget, but instead of serious public investments in production, energy, water or industry, the economy feeds on subsidies and <x0 age” short-term electoral investments that do not solve any structural problems. Kurti government is currently focused more on managing perception than on real economic production. So it has shaped an economy based on propaganda, consumption and import rather than production, export and long-term investment.

Moreover, inflation is also being fueled by a lack of real competition, because the market in many sectors is being dominated by a handful of large government-related companies that are practically detecting higher prices than in the European Union. Kurt came to power seven years ago, denouncing oligarchs and promising to fight market capture. Today, after all the revolutionary opposition rhetoric, it seems that partnership with them has become more convenient than confrontation. As long as funds, support, and votes are secured, eyes close to cartels, monopolies, lack of competition and prices that climb on citizens' backs every month.

For the citizen, this is not statistical or abstract, but the moment he enters the supermarket and realizes that the salary is no longer enough to fill the basket. Inflation is the pensioner who counts cents in the register, the parent who thinks twice before buying something for the child, and the family who anxiously waits for money from children in the diaspora. Remittances are being used as <x0). Because they are keeping consumption alive and are hiding the real structural crisis of the economy. Without the diaspora, many of the weaknesses would have erupted much earlier. However, even the hard - earned euro in Germany or Switzerland today is worth less in the face of unmerciful prices. For families dependent on remittances, that means less food on the table, less security, less quality of life, less hope. It also adds to the bitter feeling that regardless of how hard it works or sacrifices, life in Kosovo is becoming heavier every month and the courage for more people.

Here inflation must be clarified that Kosovo is far more brutal than in rich European countries, because it hits a low-paid society and an almost totally dependent economy on imports. In high-wage countries, most people after paying food, energy, and rent still have money for savings, holidays, or other things. In Kosovo, many families spend almost their entire salary on bread, oil, milk, fuel, energy, medicines and rent. In Germany or Switzerland, even when prices rise, households still have enough financial space for savings, entertainment, or other consumption. In Kosovo, however, a large portion of citizens spend almost all their income on basic needs. This means that when prices rise, the citizen here gives up, not the luxury, but the basics of life. Inflation in Kosovo does not affect the comfort, but the family's office.

So as the propaganda machine is about to start engines on June 7th and promise other imaginary successes, the reality in citizens' pockets speaks for itself. Kosovo today is not competing with the development region, but for expensiveness. The grand promise of free market from oligarchs and a more dignified life ended in a silent alliance that fuels monopolies and emptys the refrigerator of Kosovo families. On June 7th, Kurt can ask for the next"victory of", but in front of him there will be a people who have a sacrifice of everydayity, while an unaffordable living is a gift from his power.